Levitation tells the amazing true story of the most dazzling illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems too good to be true -- The Scientist: John Neville Maskelyne, the oh-so-proper British magician and the trick's inventor. The American: Harry Kellar couldn't buy the illusion, so he found another way to get it. The Inventor: Guy Jarrett, the rough-and-tumble engineer who perfected the illusion. The Heir: Howard Thurston, the handsome and charismatic performer who inherited the act from Kellar and then, according to Kellar, ruined it.

Or did he? Join us on stage and behind it and learn not only how to defy gravity, but why people believed you could.

About the storytellers: Janine Johnston began her comics career over 10 years ago as an artist for Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. She went on to adapt and paint for the Elfquest series "Blood of Ten Chiefs" and currently works as a painter, muralist, and on numerous projects in both the comics and gaming industry.
In addition to being the author of the New York Times #1
Bestseller Feynman, all of Jim Ottaviani's books have been nominated for
multiple awards, including Eisners & ALA Popular Paperback of the Year.
They also receive critical praise in publications ranging (widely!) from
The New York Review of Books to The Comics
Journal to Physics World to Entertainment
Weekly to Discover Magazine.

Press

"There's a surprising amount of scientific knowledge needed to make impressive illusions work, and this book shows you how some of them accomplish their tricks. A good show requires experimentation ahead of time to make improvements and work out the bugs." - Comics Worth Reading